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Humans are curious creatures. Our craving to know and understand is the driving force behind our development as individuals and our success as a species. But we're also dumb.
So when Reddit user Ryyi23 posted this question on the platform: "What oddly specific rules have you seen that are probably only there because someone actually did it in the past?" the replies came flooding in.
From a warning not to fill a water gun with urine to a suggestion to remove a child from a piece of clothing before washing it, continue scrolling and check out some of the funniest ones!
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#1
At my last job, we had a sign on the back door that said "you must walk trash all the way to the dumpster; DO NOT TRAIN THE RACCOONS!!!"
The story behind that is the facility I worked at does dog daycare and training, and Darcy the Human (not to be confused with Darcy the Poodle) didn't like having to walk all the way across the parking lot at the end of the night to take out the trash, and trained about three raccoons to drag the bags to the dumpster because he couldn't be bothered to walk 50ft to it. He got away with it for about a year, and even named them. The manager only found out when she opened the back door to throw out some boxes and saw a bunch of raccoons immediately run up and cart them off.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
So am I. I don't think it's easy to train a raccoon - and that would be something handy, when it's raining hard.
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Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
What was the problem? Trash picked up saving you a job and the raccoons get paid in fresh trash. Everyone’s a winner
katrina hunt 4 years ago
Right? Dan Darcy’s boss. She clearly knows how to delegate responsibility!
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#2
If the water between Denmark and Sweden freezes, and the Swedes walk over we (the Danes) are allowed to hit them with sticks.
Nisse Danielsson 4 years ago
It´s a old law, going back centuries when Sweden and Denmark was at war, if Öregrund frooze we could easily invade Denmark.
Rikke Visby Wickberg 4 years ago
Isn't it easier with the bridge, nowadays?
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Chewie Baron 4 years ago
There's an island that is between Canada and Greenland, Hans Island, which is claimed by both Canada and Denmark. One nation will plant their flag, then the other will replace it with theirs. They also leave gifts for each other, Canadian whisky, Danish lager. It's the most politest war ever!
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
😂😂😂 I read about that. This should be a comic by "Scandinavia and the world", but isn't (yet)
Jess-a-men 4 years ago
Ah, but there is! https://satwcomic.com/the-law-is-the-law
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Joanna Werman 4 years ago
They are then required to throw candy. This is the earliest known experience of what we now know as the pinata
Jon Steensen 4 years ago
I guess it is because the law was from a time where firearms were slow, unreliable and expensive. So not everybody had acces to them. Sticks on the other hand is easy to aquire when you need one to one of those bloody awfull sweds.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
I would like to see something similar with our Mason-Dixon Line. This seems like a relatively humorous way to deal with ancient gripes.
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
So what happens if a Swede comes to visit but uses transportation and a Dane hits them Is it an international incident. Maybe now they use this law to keep Swedes from visiting in winter.
We managed to get in contact with Ryyi23 and they agreed to have a little chat with us about the inspiration behind the original post. "I had been talking to a friend about water parks and I remembered a sign at a water park that seemed obvious to me. It said 'Don't poop while on the slide.' So I figured there's probably plenty of odd rules and I wanted to know about them," the Redditor told Bored Panda.
"My main takeaway from the answers is that sometimes, common sense isn't common. Things that seem obvious to most people aren't necessarily obvious to everyone. The areas where rules were coming from seemed to be pretty diverse, but many of them involved job sites and there were a good number of answers from medical areas," they explained.
#3
On an AirFrance flight from Morocco to Mauritania, the flight attendant gave the safety brief in French at first. My french is not good but my ears pricked up when I heard the words "feu de camp." I obviously discounted my translation as misunderstanding the brief until she went into the brief in English.
We were given the standard safety brief on all aircraft, but at the end we were specifically reminded that there are to be no cooking or camp fires lit on the plane at any time.
Can you imagine your seat mate getting hungry and deciding to start a fire on an airplane to cook up some snacks?!?!?
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago (edited)
I knew a former canadian Airforce member who told me a story: In the late 80s, he was on a flight with some italian pilots when he smelled something weird. He went checking and found the italians cooking pasta on a camping stove! He told them to stop immediately because of the danger... the answer was: "Don't worry, we fly Starfighters, we don't fear death"
Nadja Lambacher 4 years ago
We had a joke in Germany: "How do you get a Starfighter? Buy a piece of farmland and wait." They fell out of the sky a lot.
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Lyone Fein 4 years ago
I have been on trains where passengers started fires to cook food. . . . . You know, for most of the world, this is still how meals are normally prepared day in and day out. So it makes sense that instructions need to be given in places where cooking cannot occur. Especially since most people don't read or write either. For those of us who are both literate and who are able to get prepared food on a regular basis, it would be good to remember that we are fortunate to enjoy such unusual privilege.
Daria B 4 years ago
It should be no privilege, though. Sad and dangerous that it is.
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
There is a very good reason for this snd I witnessed it myself. On my younger days, I traveled extensively (my father worked for an airline). On a trip back to the States from England, a pair of middle aged gentlemen (dressed well yet I could tell they were not wealthy). The two men got up from their seats, sat down in the middle of the aisle, pulled some small sticks and a pot and began arranging the sticks on the floor of the plane. Passengers watched in abject horror, many not believing their eyes. I got up quickly to get the flight attendant to let them know what disaster was about to take place and she booked it towards them faster than I have ever seen anyone run on a plane before. It took some serious conversation to confiscate the gentlemen’s cooking apparatus and convince them that a meal for each of them would be prepared immediately. *NOTE: it takes only approximately two minutes for a fire to fully engulf a plane, and less to fill the plane full of highly toxic fumes.
Daria B 4 years ago
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you shouldn't skip your science classes. Deer goodness, what were these people thinking, really.....
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Sue Hazlewood 4 years ago
It has been done believe it or not https://www.nafi.org/blog/today-in-history-fire-on-saudi-jet-kills-301/
Scott Baysinger 4 years ago
Saudia Flight 163, August 1980. All 287 passengers and 14 crew died from smoke inhalation following a successful emergency landing. Human ignorance is limitless.
Jay Cee 1 year ago
My ex was an airline stewardess back in the 70s and you could "moonlight" with a company that flew pilgrims into Jeddah airport on their way to Mekkah. Some of them hadn't been in a truck let alone an airplane before so constant vigilance was required else they'd start a fire to brew tea. Perfectly nice people they just had no idea how things worked. Then there was the flight where the guy brought his goat with him . . .
#4
We once got a piece of clothing for one of the kids and right on the label, I kid you not, ‘remove child before washing.'
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
An excuse for Aunt Martha. She may NOT attempt to scrub spaghetti sauce out of your t-shirt with club soda while you're sitting at Olive Garden.
Viktor 4 years ago
This might just be for fun. I once had a t-shirt where the washing instructions ended with 'or just give it to your mum, she knows what to do'.
FABULOUS1 4 years ago
Sorry but I prefer to kill two birds with one stone, shirt and child will be washed together.
Francesca Annoni 4 years ago
I've seen the instructions in a stroller .. the US one labelled "remove child before closing the stroller" ..I guess why...
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Seems to me that China has very, very low expectations of American parents. And, they should.
Bored Doggy 4 years ago
hey why is everyone putting a 1 at the ends of their comments? (help) (1)
Daria B 4 years ago
It's the cult of the 1! Beware peasant! Soon the 1s are going to take over the world! Mwahahahahahaha
Load More Replies... Christina Keenan 4 years ago
I had a down coat that had a label that said " dry with three tennis balls ". I believe it was to beat the feathers back in place.
Łukasz Markuszewski 4 years ago
what if the child is not made in china? should I still remove it?
littlesaresare 4 years ago
A packet of sausages I bought once had the warning "Remove sausages from packet before cooking." Some people...
#5
In my lease, I had a clause to properly dispose of my used tampons.
I asked why and apparently my landlord had a tenant that caused $50,000 of damage because she threw her used tampons into the cabinet under the sink. She rented the apartment for years and there were 3+ years worth of used, bloody tampons in there.
The, uh, blood caused a bunch of damage akin to water damage to the bathoom. The floor under the cabinet was rotted through. From bloody tampon storage.
The thought of a steamy, gelatinous glorb of blood gooping through the sh**ty linoleum and blooming a bloody Clicker from The Last of Us makes me want to actively die.
Morgan Carpenter 4 years ago
I was like, "Oh, the old tenant flushed them" before I started the second paragraph. I was a happier woman, then...
Ivy la Sangrienta 4 years ago
Same. And I thought flushing was bad but this!
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Sterrinatu 4 years ago
That was my first thought! Jesus, Mary and Joseph that had to be bad!
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Cold Contagious 4 years ago
I agree. There's some serious issues there. I hope she got the help she needs.
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Thomas Biorogue 4 years ago
Just when you think you've heard it all, the internet slaps you up side the head with a new gem.
Gia SDP 4 years ago
When my children were very young, I had a live-in nanny once I went back to work. She only stayed with us about 6 months, because I discovered she was tossing her used sanitary pads and tampons under her bed. !!!!!!!!! GET. OUT. NOW.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Every day, I become more and more disillusioned about the human race.
Spack Jarrow 4 years ago
God was disappointed about monkeys, created humans and immediately quit making any further "evolution experiments" 😖
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Ryyi23 isn't entirely sure how many of these regulations have actually helped. "If the rule is something so obvious that most wouldn't consider doing it in the first place, then the people who decide to disregard it probably don't read the rules anyway," they said. "I think companies might implement odd rules in order to punish anyone else who tries to do it."
At the end of the day, Ryyi23 is happy that some of the posts they've made on Reddit have gotten so much attention and sparked such interesting discussions. "I love learning about people's life experiences and their fun stories. [Sharing them] is a good way to help each other to look at the bright side of life."
#6
In Florida " You may not have sexual relations with a porcupine".
I I 4 years ago
what if the porcupine really , really wants it ? or it wears revealing clothing ?
Vicky Z 4 years ago
If it really wants it too it's acceptable! If it wears revealing clothes of course it's not
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#7
In rehab our cottons swabs were taken away because a guy decided to jam one into his eardrum to get sent to the hospital and get painkillers. Every seemingly dumb rule we had in there had a backstory to it.
Otter 4 years ago
I worked in a hospital, and we weren't allowed to give cotton swabs to patients, because someone might hurt their ear and sue us. The cotton swabs were strictly for wound packing.
F. H. 4 years ago
Well, it's strongly adviced not to use them in the ears, even by the manifacturers. If medical personal gives them to a patient who might have the slightest intent to use them in the ears, that's an open and shut case.
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Paweł Duda 4 years ago
On our rehab we couldnt pick anything from the ground on walks, even things we dropped, because someone could pick up drugs. Rehabs tend to have ridiculous rules, and all of them have backstory to them.
nicole veltri 4 years ago
At a psych ward we couldn't wear deodorant because people were licking it off. Idk if it was themselves or others
Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
A knew a woman who purposely dropped a cinder block on her foot to get pain meds from the emergency room doctors. It worked the first time, the second time they x-rayed her foot to make certain it wasn’t broken, told her that her file was now flagged for her drug seeking behavior so that if she tried it or any other act of self harm to gain pain medication, the front desk employee would see the flag and turn her away before she wasted their time. There was no third attempt.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
I understand not wanting to enable her, but how can an ER completely turn away someone who still needs medical attention? If someone has a broken foot they still need treatment, even if they're refused painkillers.
Load More Replies... Mtownmick 4 years ago
Every law comes after the fact. No elephants allowed on Main St before 1pm on Sunday. You can bet some circus had a parade.
FelineWine 4 years ago
A psych ward I stayed at we weren't allowed more than two blankets in the cold rooms because someone once managed to hang themselves with the blankets in between the 15 minute checks.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Just takes one hardcore patient to ruin it for all the rest in perpetuity.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
We never gave cotton swabs on sticks to patients - never use them for wound packing!
Emily Kathleen 4 years ago
They seem to be woefully inefficient for "wound" packing. What wounds would be packed by a freaking q-tip? An infected zit?
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#8
‘Absolutely no roller skates in the lab.’ My husband worked for a private lab startup and half the women there did roller derby. The lab was (as many are) a repurposed warehouse with nice smooth concrete floors. One of the women thought it would be fun to skate between machines. She got a lot done but the boss figured osha wouldn’t be too thrilled so the sign went up a few days later. You could still wear your skates in the break room.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Skates used to be a required part of the job in large delivery warehouses. It was killer on human biology and pretty inhumane. Unfortunate. It sounds fun to me, but I'd hate to be forced to wear them daily just to be more productive at work.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
This reminds me of Tootie from Facts of Life, where she was forced to wear roller skates just to get a bit taller. But back to the topic - thinking of a chemist rollerskating in a lab petrifies me. Just think of all the beakers with chemicals and other specimens that might spill all over the place, if one person hits a table or two.😬
Robert Thompson 4 years ago
I remember wearing my skates as a gas station attendant (night shift). Things went well till the boss found out.
Gemma Strickland 4 years ago
I work for a charity in a prison in the UK and I'm none stop walking around all day. This idea sounds bloody brilliant to me! I could get so much more done!
Katchen 4 years ago
I used to work in a lab that looked much like the picture, with long hallways between rooms. My coworker had those shoes called Heelies that have pop-out wheels to transition from regular shoe to roller skate and would ride down the halls. Until our Vice President of R&D asked him if he thought what he was doing was safe, then his fun times were over.
Dillon Hughes 4 years ago
I would as a carpenter, it was fabulous! Wood and stuff sure cool, chemical s.... Maybe not....
#9
“Don’t take (prescription drug) if you're allergic to (same drug).”
Otter 4 years ago
Unfortunately, the only way you can find out if you're allergic to a drug is to take the drug and have an "adverse reaction".
Tango 4 years ago
If you have an adverse reaction, UNTAKE IT! Geez, do I have to think of everything!
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Dirk Daring 4 years ago
100% this, but also... there should not be commercials for prescription medications. PS... why does it take them three times as long to list the horrifying side effects as it does to tell me how the pill will help?
Yort 4 years ago
They’re legally required to list every side effect anybody had in the trial even if there’s only a 1% chance of the side effect happening.
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
The ads usually say something like "if you are allergic to XXX or any of its ingredients..." but you can't find out what's in it because copyright.
Emily Kathleen 4 years ago
Or the ingredient has a different name under that manufacturer.
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Eagle Girl 4 years ago
This seems to be a tag at the end of every advert. How would you know if you were allergic?
SuperChicken 4 years ago
Once you get a reaction, stop taking it and call your doctor. That happened to me once, and the doc changed my prescription.
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
I hate when commercials are like “Don’t take this medicine that could result in a life threatening illness if you are allergic to it or it’s ingredients” like yeah no s**t!
Christina Keenan 4 years ago
I'm a nurse. This has always made me roll my eyes. First, how does one know one is allergic to said med unless one knows. Second, why would one take it IF one was allergic????
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
That always made me laugh for 2 reasons. 1. How can you know unless you take it. 2. Why continue taking it if you KNOW it can kill/harm you
The Macomb Law Group acknowledges that warning labels on products can get a little silly but say there is a reason for it: companies continue to produce dangerous products.
"When consumers are hurt because something they purchased does them harm, [the law in many places] says they may be able to file a product liability lawsuit. These cases say that a product was unreasonably dangerous, but the manufacturer sold it anyway," the Macomb Law Group explained.
#10
On a package of precision screwdrivers "Do not insert into penis."
Hilary Rudd 4 years ago
I did have a patient years ago that had a knitting needle up his penis
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Gummy worm, the sour kind with the acid on the outside.
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
As any nurse who has worked in an ER can tell you even if it doesn't fit, they'll try to make it fit!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Well, I'm sure the doctors and nurses here are not surprised! Especially if they work in emergency room they can share many interesting stories! I have one from a friend! Vacuum cleaner shoved up the ass! The guy showed up dragging a whole vacuum behind him
Luna Lovegood 4 years ago
Yeah I heard about that... unsee juice please ; _ ;
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BananaAnna 4 years ago
As a nurse, I have seen many odd sexual toys. To each his own insanity.
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
I just read a headline in the Daily Mail. Apparently the same warning needs to be added to USB cables. 15 year old boys need to be reminded.
#11
in NZ it is illegal to name your kid "Pink panties" ...
Manndy Fisher 4 years ago
My god that reminds me of one girl who was named "Tallulah Dance Hula In Hawaii". That was her actual first name!!! She was so ashamed of it that she always asked to be called "K".. Thankfully her name was changed due to court order. These things should be illegal everywhere
Katrina 4 years ago
I've always said that the U.S. needs to follow Europe in that there needs to be rules for naming your child. Not super restrictive like Iceland but at least not allowing you to name you child Banks
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Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
Below is the full list of names declined by the New Zealand registrar-general in 2018 alone. Allah Avaya-Royal Duke Emperor Emprah Gunner Heaven-Princezz-Star Hunter-Rhouge II III Jahstice Judge Jusdyce Justus Kiing King Kingdavid Kyro-King Lee-Royal Majestee-Honours Majesty Major Messiah Miss Prince Prince-Ryder Princess-Dixie-Rose Prinz Prynce Queen Rhoyal-Kahurangi Rogue Roil Royaale Royal Royale Royale-Bubz Royality Royalty Royelle Saint Sir Sire Zdiam-Bishop
#12
“Do not fill with urine” on a water gun.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Piss off could be used in the literal sense if used this way - I wonder---?
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#13
Do not pick up this lawn mower and use it as a hedge trimmer.
Adam C 4 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ubwr8/crane_mowing/
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Dolly_of TheCowboy 4 years ago
Seen the result of this twice in ER. Same afternoon. Two blokes that did it lived 4 houses apart. Second guy saw first guy as he was driving past thought "heyyyy time saving" but did not see the result until he did same thing. Surgical teams were like O.o
According to the lawyers, product liability usually falls into at least one of three categories:
- Manufacturing defects (something wasn’t built to the proper specifications);
- Design defects (the thing was built according to specifications that contained a danger);
- Failure to warn (the manufacturer didn’t disclose an inherent danger in the product).
"Failure to warn is sometimes also called a marketing defect," the Macomb Law Group added. "The theory behind these cases is that, if a manufacturer cannot reasonably make the product safe, it can still be responsible for letting the consumer know about the dangers."
I wonder how many crazy lawsuits hide behind these rules?
#14
Never iron clothes while they are being worn.
Kira Thomason 4 years ago
That one person reading this: Well how else are you supposed to do it?
#15
My father’s hometown, Marion, Ohio, had a rule that you couldn’t eat a donut while walking backwards. If I remember correctly, it had something to do with attracting police horses to lure them away from the police.
KJ 4 years ago
Do the police horses not tend to have a person on them, you would think they would notice.
My O My 4 years ago
It's the police men riding activly after the donut. Police has a history with donuts...
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Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
Just like the post above regarding ice cream cones in back pockets, it’s for any horse thief….. Throughout Alabama, it's illegal for a person to walk down the street with an ice cream cone in their back pocket. Back when most people got around on horseback, horse thieves would put ice cream in their pocket to lure horses away without being charged with stealing
fuggnuggins 4 years ago
Just when people were starting to get used to people expecting all their questions to be answered online without making any effort themselves, now even the question isn't attempted.
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Concept-Peter Roosdorp 4 years ago
Another place has a similar law, cant remember where. But you where not allowed to keep ice cream in your back pocket. (because of people using it to lure and steal horses.)
Beck(formerly Becca/Gizmo sq) 4 years ago
Somewhere you can not carry ice cream cones in your pocket at a theater.
#16
At my company's picnic outing: "Anyone who jumps in the lake will be fired."
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
People have been known to get severely injured because they jumped into water they didn't know and break legs, arms and necks. In my neighborhood I know of at least 2 people who went on vacation and got paralysed because of their diving into unknown water. One of them was a 36 year old guy who had 3 kids. He died within 6 months of complications.
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Chris Allan 4 years ago
There ya' go... the action word is 'jump', while a happy stroll should be just fine.
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Pierre Phenix 4 years ago
Injuries sustained during a company event count as work injury where the company needs to compensate or may get sued. Firing the employee as they "break the rule" make them non-employee and avoid paying compensation in case of accident !
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
That’s super dangerous, never throw people into bodies of water.
Load More Replies... Amir Ahmed Asif 4 years ago
What if someone pushes a coworker? (I guess, they are afraid of liability. Something bad may have happened on a picnic sometime ago? Or, the HR heard a story.)
Sarah Tate 4 years ago
There's a well know story where a bridesmaid pushed the bride in to a pool during her bachelorette party and the bride ended up a quadriplegic.
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#17
"Do not use for drying pets" on the microwave.
Chris Kane 4 years ago
To be fair... in the 50s, Scientist's found out that you can revive a dead frozen hamster in a Microwave.
Jihana 4 years ago
Apparently there was an old lady who used to dry her dog in the oven at low temperature. No one told her that she should not do this with her new microwave.
Izzy Curer 4 years ago
This is an urban legend. It never actually happened.
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Sky Render 4 years ago
Ah yes, the old urban legends about pets in microwaves... I remember an old video game called Maniac Mansion played with that by letting you microwave a hamster. The NES version of that kept that gag, and man was Nintendo mad when they found out!
Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
With old ovens it wasn't unusual to use the oven on low as a veterinary incubator for kittens, lambs, puppies etc if mum had died.
Mary-Hunter McCaslin 4 years ago
and ummm may i ask why u r too lazy to use a towel or hairdryer?????
#18
No rings on ship decks. They can get caught and deglove your finger, which is exactly as horrid as it sounds.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
My husband works inside at UPS and they cannot wear rings because of all of the belts that move the boxes. One of the guys he works with forgot to take his off after the weekend and ended up losing a finger.
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Wood Carver 4 years ago
Word of warning! Atop this tungsten rings are extremely difficult to cut with anything other than abrasives. Jaws of life don't even like them as they have hardened steel blades which are softer than tungsten. If you have a tungsten ring on at work and there is an issue assume you aren't keeping the finger. Also DO NOT LOOK UP DEGLOVING IT IS WAY MORE HORRID AND WILL HAUNT YOUR WAKING NIGHTMARES
KJ 4 years ago
I watched a health and safety video covering this years ago, I had no idea what it was and honestly wish I still didn't know.
Al Cook 4 years ago
HOLY S**T!!! My curiosity got the better of me. I knew about finger degloving which is gruesome enough, but I have now seen that you can have facial degloving or even genital degloving, both of which are truly horrific! Real life can be way worse than any horror movie!
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Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
Of yeah, its gawd awful...thats why Ive never worn a wedding ring. After 21 years, my wife knows Im not wandering off.
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
So did my dad, my parents were married for 50 years
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
No jewelry should ever be worn while engaged in manual labor of any sort. It's just not safe.
James Hardin 4 years ago
i actually have had my finger degloved. lots of surgery and an insane medical bill was able to put it back on. i have never worn a ring since.
#19
For my fellow scientists: Transferring chemicals by mouth (mouth pipetting) is forbidden.
Wood Carver 4 years ago (edited)
This sounds crazier than it is. Old pipettes were extremely precise but there were no good pumps equally accurate. A long tube was attached to the bulb end and is fine IF the chemical being mouth pipetted does not have harmful fumes.... safer to just outlaw them
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
At school we were issued these dumb pipette suckers, but they never worked properly, were very hard to control accurately, and often didn't seal properly so the contents of the pipette would run out. Then they penalised us for mouth sucking even though this was the only way of getting accurate results.
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Annamagelic 4 years ago (edited)
Yes, labs have so many seemingly obvious safety rules that are all spelled out. Most of them you hear and think, "Wow, how much if an idiot would you have to be to do that. " Then you talk to older colleagues or retirees in the field who casually mention fun stories like the time they were mouth pipetting hydrochloric acid back in grad school and nearly melted their tongue off, and you realize not so very long ago there were no safety standards and people routinely did all the insanely stupid things the rules say not to.
Jihana 4 years ago
To be honest, hydrochloric acid wouldn't be too bad as long as it is not too concentrated. That's the stuff in your stomach after all. Now oxidizing acids like nitric or sulfuric acid would be something completely different.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 4 years ago
The backstory in the Netherlands is that it's forbidden since a student swallowed HIV-infected blood by accident when pipetting by mouth.
4 years ago
Pipetting with balloons is slow compared to mouth pipetting. In our big lab mouth pipetting is still common practice,but the staff is highly qualified.
Annamagelic 4 years ago
Yikes. I assume you live somewhere with limited heath and safety regulations. There are many options for pipetting besides rubber balloons or by mouth. The rechargeable battery operated pipetters are quite fast. There are also manual pipetters that give more control than the basic rubber ball.
Load More Replies... Annamagelic 4 years ago (edited)
Its really more like 40 or 50 years ago, not hundreds.
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Katchen 4 years ago
I always thought, “who would mouth pipette?” but I witnessed one of my coworkers doing just that with long, capillary-thin tubes. She was in vitro fertilizing mouse eggs under a microscope and pipetting by mouth to do so. This was in a US National Laboratory, so safety restrictions out the yin-yang but she still did it.
Marilyn Holt 4 years ago
My dad told me years ago people used to siphon gas from cars, starting the siphon by mouth.
Mary Hiers 4 years ago
I'm old enough to remember being taught mouth pipetting in biology lab. Specifically, we had to mouth pipette solutions of e. coli. Naturally, one girl was mouth pipettig her e. coli and some wag came up behind her and intentionally startled her, causing her to swallow the stuff. No ill effects that I know of, but some strains of e. coli can be deadly.
#20
Pharmacy worker here. We have to specify to unwrap suppositories BEFORE insertion. Apparently someone thought the foil was part of it.
KJ 4 years ago
So this customer I assume went back to the pharmacy to complain they weren't dissolving, that would have been an awkward conversation.
Batwench 4 years ago
Yes they do. I know someone who has had that conversation with a customer.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Sadly, you'd be amazed who doesn't read the instructions. Or why they don't.
Full Name 4 years ago
I'm thoroughly reading the instructions for anything that needs to be shoved up my a$$.
Load More Replies... Brian Bennett 4 years ago
As any nurse who has worked in an ER knows this is a true statement!
David Martin 4 years ago
I have a friend in pharmacy work who once sent a picture of a sign at her pharmacy that states "This is a drug free work environment!" I'm aware what they meant, but...
Downunderdude 4 years ago
OK. Very old joke. Doctor prescribes suppositories for a patient. Patient comes back two weeks later. 'Doc, those pills you gave me were useless. For all the good they did, I might as well have shoved them up my ass.'
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I've heard of people eating suppositories, and shoving them up their nose...
Lynda Veilleux 3 years ago
A group of older ladies (us) had to explain to a young girl (early 20's) that you do NOT eat the suppositories. True story!
#21
Remove baby before collapsing stroller.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Hey, new parent brain is real. You try functioning for days on basically zero sleep.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
How am I suppose to make next world champion gymnast now?
Ginny Weasly 4 years ago
No thanks, too much effort. Plus, it is much easier to then carry the stroller and the baby as one. In airports, don’t worry about having the baby on your lap- it can go with the stroller! I see nothing but benefits. 😂
Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
Why? Just fold it with the child, you dont have to put it in the special baby seat then. And they are much more quite in the trunk. Well, maybe we just couldn't hear them, but still, it was a nice ride with no crying, screaming or whining.
#22
You're not allowed to bring vuvuzelas into a Metallica concert. I really just want to know the story.
Clinton Csmith 4 years ago
You, shouldn't be allowed to bring them anywhere. They are horrible!
Happi doggi 4 years ago
When my great grandmother died, I was given $64 and a vuvuzela. Vuvuzelas are only ok if it’s one of the few things your great grandmother left for you.
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Laugh or not 4 years ago
How old were you during the 2010 Football World cup in South Africa ? Serious question, since that was The Year of the Vuvuzela.
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Jihana 4 years ago
I don't think it will be that interesting. Someone brought a vuvuzela, blew it and Metallica was pissed.
Al Cook 4 years ago
Much as I like Metallica's music, they really are the diva's of metal.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
And with good reason. At the price of concert tickets, no one wants to feel like they're in a soccer stadium.
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
I had to look that up. I had absolutely no idea what that word meant.
#23
Do not stop chainsaw blade with genitals.
Wood Carver 4 years ago (edited)
I promise it's self explanatory. I know for a fact bouer chainsaws used to come with a warranty that said do not stop moving blade with hands feet or genitals because people had stepped on them grabbed them and sat on them.
Load More Replies... Brian Bennett 4 years ago
How could a intelligent person (I use the term loosely) accidently sit on a running chainsaw? Them things ain't exactly quiet!
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Ehh more like a "betcha i can stop that drill with my junk" situation
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Skara Brae 4 years ago
Seems like the ones who want to do this are the very ones that should do this.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
Oh, my goodness. Do they think they have some kind of super genitals?
#24
“Do not put 14 rolls of toilet paper in the toilet” -Walmart 2019
Turtle42 4 years ago
You say shitty. And yet you haven't been to my companies multimillion building. And seems unable to give us anything but one ply
Load More Replies... Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Question to Walmart - How did you get the number 14, sounds like an experiment done by staff!
Robert Bailey 4 years ago
I love how BP is putting a number one at the end of all the comments today. And I can't wait to see the movie about Toilet paper wars set 18,181 years in the future.
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
Why specifically 14? I'm sure just one could plug up the toilet just fine. So wasteful! :p
#25
There's a town in Alabama where it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.
DE Ray 4 years ago
Same reason as the "walking backwards with a doughnut" rule - luring horses away from their owners.
Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
The story behind the law (I love learning about these)…. Alabama. Throughout Alabama, it's illegal for a person to walk down the street with an ice cream cone in their back pocket. Back when most people got around on horseback, horse thieves would put ice cream in their pocket to lure horses away without being charged with stealing
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Back in horseback getting-around days, horse thieves would tuck an ice cream cone in their back pocket to lure the horses, but weren't charged with stealing.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Perhaps this relates to the brain farts thread - I'm looking at you, person who put their coffee in their bag.
#26
Last year’s company christmas party email specifically stated to bring an extra pair of pants if you will be urinating in the first pair.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
What the hell kind of company is this? (Not that I want an invitation!)
Honu 4 years ago
I guess getting stinking drunk is part of the company culture. Alcohol has been served at most work parties I've been to, but I've never seen anyone get drunk. It would be considered unprofessional and so embarrassing. Even coworkers I know that loved going out and getting absolutely hammered regularly on the weekend wouldn't do it at a work party.
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Back in the 90s, I used to work in a convenience store in New Jersey. Once a year I’d have to go to the health department and get certified as a food handler. It is in this capacity that I learned that there is a law on the books in the state of New Jersey that you cannot store food under a leaking sewage pipe. You just know health inspector went into a store and said “what the hell?! You can’t store food under leaking sewer pipe!” And the store owner said “cite the statute!”
Lisa Krolasik 4 years ago
I've read restaurant inspection reports. Stuff like this happens, more often it's prepared ready-to-serve food on a shelf under dripping raw meat in a refrigerator.
Elizabeth Butler 4 years ago
Our newspaper used to publish the inspection reports. Every restaurant that had this specific citation--and they were frequent--was one more we would NEVER go to.
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Vasana Phong 4 years ago
My mil told me one time she went to the ladies room while waiting for her order, she came right out and started yelling at them (there was marinating meat in buckets in there) got into a heated argument with them, they told her they’re gonna call the cops since she already ordered her food and in the middle of making it, she said go ahead I’ll tell them the reason.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Formerly, proprietary sauce until some overzealous inspector blew the whistle.
#28
Used to work in a big name book store. In the office we had a huge sign saying "no boiled eggs allowed in staff office"
Beautifulnoodle 4 years ago
I had a co worker that would come to "chat" and eat hard boiled eggs. I would almost die and my office would stink for hours. Absolute f*cking monster. As are people that microwave fish in the shared break room. Why do you want to hurt people?
#29
Do not dress game (e.g. deer, pheasant) in dormitory kitchens.
I wonder who dragged a deer into the dorm and cut it up for venison...
Jacin Larkwell 4 years ago
I think this was a rule in my dorm too. Granted we do have turkeys that wander the school property....
Ann Jeppesen 4 years ago
English isn't my native language, so when I saw the first line, I thought people would put wild animals in costumes. Not cut them up, which I got when reading on.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
English is my first language and I had to read it three times! I guess it comes from not being in a country that regularly hunts and takes home wild animals.
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Those sinks can barely handle hand washing, dishes need to be scraped clean before being done. The long protein molecules of blood would wreck the plumbing for sure.
Kent Vanderport 4 years ago
Bemidji State University in Northern MN has a Game Processing facility on campus because so many of the students are outdoorsman.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Wow, that just blew my mind! I never would have even considered that was a thing :)
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#30
Please do not add dish detergent to the water fountains.
Airis Malfoy 4 years ago
this one seems like a strange thing my mom would say to me and my cousins at the annual family re-union.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
It sounds weird, but if you throw dish detergent in the fountains they develop pretty-colored foam. It's a common prank for school kids in the city I grew up in. Bad for the fountains though.
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Al Cook 4 years ago
I did this once when I was about 16 with a bunch of friends! With bubble bath. It was a huge fountain and it was epic! Great memories.
#31
No bouncing balls on city sidewalks…it scares horses.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
This must be a law from horse & buggy days. Doesn't take much to startle a horse.
Jane Alexander 4 years ago
I was thinkg that, and they don't mean any harm, but at a thousand pounds or more, just one mis-step...
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Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Those are stressed horses in that photo. Could be mustangs after a terrible round up.
#32
Do not smoke when applying hairspray.
Boaz Krebs 4 years ago
no, it's a good idea: you'll get some big ol firework (maybe without the work part but that doesn't matter) and it's perfect if you're really cold!
Manndy Fisher 4 years ago
Using hairspray in public should be illegal. I witnessed that in a bus when some fecking dead brain chick sprayed all her hair! like dude WTF?? the smell was unbelievable...
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
A car blew up near where I live because the man used an excessive amount of air freshener. His car was ruined and he was lightly singed on all exposed parts.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
I remember as a child, in an era when Aqua Net was a thing to use by every women... before getting out of the car, whomever I was with - my Mom, along with my Aunt(s) or with their female friends - they would spray their hair as a final touch, like it's their job. Once you open the car door, you could see the mist from the hairspray coming out of the car. The good old days? 😆
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
Good old Aqua Net! I have so many memories of the family going somewhere in the car with mom smelling freshly sprayed!
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Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
How did all the trad goths from the 80s survive without exploding?? 😦
Olofa Here 4 years ago
I read about a fire started by lingering hairspray and a roller skating Barbie doll. The skates had a spark-throwing device that worked like the wheel in a lighter, and with the same result.
Grace and Lucy 4 years ago
Goggles for the eyes should be sold with hairspray. Pressing the nozzle sends the spray in every direction' but not on your hair.
Tonya Wallace 4 years ago
I use oil sheen and have one of those plastic face protectors. They look like a hand mirror. Anyway, they're great for using aerosol hair products.
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Curling iron instructions: Do not use while sleeping
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Ikr, that wasn't sleeping you were just resting your eyes, damn vague instructions!
Load More Replies... earringnut 4 years ago
Actually I think the warning states "for external use only" or at least that's what my mother's curling iron says.
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My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
I bought a curling iron for my mom once that had a warning that it was not for use on the eyelashes.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Too vague. Don't operate while sleeping or don't use on someone who is sleeping?
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
When you see the one that says "for external use only..." I wonder what sicko made that warning necessary?
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I bought one years ago that specified that the curling iron was not to be used in the shower, not to be used to dry hair, and not to be inserted in any orifice
#34
I worked at a video rental store and we had a big sign at the front of the store that said “CONTROL YOUR CHILDREN” because kids are an organizational nightmare
Eagle Girl 4 years ago
I worked at a bedding store. Every kids dream to jump on multiple beds. We had a sign that read "If your children jump on the bed we reserve the right to give them candy & soda"
Mtownmick 4 years ago
My favorite threat was to give them coffee and a puppy.
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April Caron 4 years ago
Back when video rental stores were a thing, I took my three children and my son’s best friend to Blockbuster. The girls stayed nearby, but I lost sight of the boys. As the girlies and I were in a loooong line waiting to check out, we heard this horrendously LOUD noise. The check out clerks kept looking at something behind them and laughing. The noise occurred every few minutes. Eventually people in the front of the line caught on to whatever the check out clerks were laughing at. It wasn’t until we finally made our way to the front of the line that we realized what the noise was and where it was coming from. Someone was opening up the video return flap on the outside of the building and yelling, “AH-BOOGA-BOOGA!” The return box was metal, so the noise reverberated and enhanced the sound. It was really funny! Up until I walked out of the store and realized who was doing that. It was my son and his buddy. Then I was mortified! Of course, now it’s hilarious again.
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
During Covid restrictions, my local gym had a one way system in place, exiting via an emergency door. When this ended the sign on the door said to use the main exit. Failure to follow instructions would result in 20 press ups and 20 sit ups! It's all about finding the right motivation.
Twodogsandapicnictable 4 years ago
Parents who can't keep their kids in line in public are the worst. No one else should have to deal with them. Store employees are not babysitters.
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
I like it. If I owned or ran a business, I probably would put the same sign up.
#35
In church, there was a sign above the votive candles that read:
"Light only one candle - $7 each."
Apparently, for $7, someone had lighted all 50 votive candles in the stand.
Wood Carver 4 years ago
Imagine and hear me out here, a religion where you're allowed to talk to God, or even pray and get a result, if you believe in that sort of thing, FOR FREE....... why does the catholic church treat Jesus like a cameo star you gotta pay to have a 5 minute zoom call with????
Monday 4 years ago
To be fair here, the religion itself is free...it's the church that's expensive. Nothing stops Catholics from just praying at home, apart from the absolutely tragic fact that nobody will be able to see how devout they are.
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Beth Arriaga 4 years ago
Damn straight. The Catholic Church is worth billions. It is disgusting.
Load More Replies... SuperChicken 4 years ago
$7 each? That's extortion. Normally, they would charge 50¢ for small ones and $1 or $2 for the big ones. I know, they shouldn't, but they do.
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
You mean... you have to pay to light a candle in church?? $7?? What candles do they use???
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
FYI: Many churches still use *Beeswax* candles. Those aren't 25 cents each. The idea is to not give off nasty smells (as from cheap paraffin). going rate for a clean beeswax white votive can be up to $4 US per candle. So, y'know, just bear in mind that it's not as simple as you think. My mom's cousins are nuns. We talk this stuff at family suppers.
Roxanne D'souza 4 years ago
Never been to the US, so I wouldn't know, but most churches I've visited in Europe, especially the touristic ones always had a 1 euro fee for a candle. I always thought that was reasonably priced if you want to light a candle. Back home in India, for that same 1 euro price, you can get an entire pack of 12-18 candles.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
In some churches, not all. It depends on denomination.
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I had the same Biology professor for Bio I and II. Because of me, the Bio II power point included a new excuse that wouldn't be accepted for missing/late work: "My drunk room mates threw it out while cleaning!"
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Some people get SUPER stoked about cleaning while drunk or high!
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I work as a counselor at a boy scout camp that happens to have coconut trees. One of the rules I have to read to the scouts is "Do not take a coconut and stick it between your legs and try to stab it with your pocket knife" this is because at least one kid some time ago did this resulting in an emergency hospital trip
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
aren't scouts always prepared? Shouldn't he have something for cracking coconuts?
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Prepared to die my sister, who is a Rover Scout suggested recently :)
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#38
I blame Johnny Knoxville for this, but "toilets are for display purposes only".
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
I was a nanny for a while when I was younger. I was accompanying the mom on a trip to the hardware store because I was much more experienced than her at diy. Suddenly we heard this loud shout from her 4 year old (who was meant to be with her) "MOM! I'm ready to wipe now!". Bless his heart for trying I guess.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
But then you get all the nasty looks and comments from people who think it is inhumane :(
Load More Replies... Jon Steensen 4 years ago
I've seen this in IKEA. They build small example appartments to show how you can decorate your home with theirstuff. Those apartments comes complete with a kitchen, a bedroom, maybe a small office, a living room and what apears to be a bathroom. However the plumbing is not connected to anything as it is only an example. It is not hard to imagine that a less intelligent person (or a child perhaps) may mistake the exhibition bathroom for a real one and hence try to use it, with an unfortunate end result.
#39
Since Covid and things going digital, we now have a ‘You must wear clothes’ rule…and we already had a pretty casual dress code.
#40
My all time favorite, in the Taco Bell i frequented as a teenager: "Please do not spit on the managers." It wasn't even a freakin paper, it was a plaque, someone got spit on enough times to go out and pay for a plaque.
Seule Forever 4 years ago
Sur hope it's also forbidden to spit on employees. (Or on anyone, actually)
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Only lama's are allowed to spit. It is my firm belief that any person who spits at other people has deserved the right to be beaten in their face so hard that it looks like they had an overdose of lip filler.
#41
Worked at a call center, as it was moving towards shutting down they weirdly got super stringent about rules. Couldn't have pen and paper so I brought putties and non-sticky slime to give myself something to do during downtime. Email goes out, no putty or slime. Okay, I'll finally learn to crochet. Bring in yarn and needles. Email goes out, no crochet or knitting. Fine, l write as a hobby so I'll type up some blurbs on Word. Maybe make an 'annoying customer' bingo sheet on Excel. Email goes out, no longer allowed to use Word or Excel. Every email was sent like a week or less after I started doing the thing, with the exception of the putty. Timeline made sense to me and my friends, kinda, but I'm sure for everyone else in the call center they were bewildered as hell.
Otter 4 years ago
You missed a great opportunity to generate the wierdest memos ever written! Taken up soap carving or oragami, and watch them send out memos banning the use of soap and paper.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Take it to the extreme and play piano on the computer keyboard. "No longer allowed to use keyboard." Next you use the phone as a make shift microphone and pretend you're Elvis. "No longer allowed to use telephone."
#42
In Arkansas, it's illegal to keep an alligator in your bathtub.
Otter 4 years ago
Well, people used to keep carp in the bathtub before making them into gefilte fish, and alligators are just as edible as carp...
DE Ray 4 years ago
We really don't have crocodiles in Arkansas - I think Florida is the only state which naturally has both crocodiles and alligators.
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#43
Worked at an auto body shop. The break room microwave sign said “no fish or birds”. There were a few Vietnamese guys working there. The guy who worked in the wash bay detailing the cars before they were given back to the customers was about 60 years old, and he always had “weird” stuff for lunch. I’ve seen him with bags full of fish heads, entire birds (feathers and all), mystery bags of unknown meat, etc. Apparently he had used the break room microwave to cook these sorts of random things and made the entire office reek for days at a time. They ended up putting the old break room microwave in the wash bay (which was in an unattached building) so he could cook all the nasty sh*t he wanted to eat without disturbing anyone else.
snipergun 4 years ago
One would say pretty nice from the company to put separate microwave for him in building where he works so he does not need to give up on his food and not bother anyone else with that.
Bunzilla 4 years ago
To be fair, the old microwave probably stunk to high heaven by then. It can be difficult to get rid of strong odours in microwaves.
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Memere 4 years ago
I once worked in an apartment building that some of the apartments had been converted to offices. There were still apartments that people lived in, and a pair of ladies from China or Viet Nam (I forget which) lived in a ground floor apartment. They would cook dried squid directly on the burner of their electric stove. The smell was probably in the top 5 worst things I have ever smelled in my life! Luckily, they didn't do it for long - management was finally able to get them to stop by setting up a grill outside just for them.
#44
There was this one residence hall on campus where we had to inform students on move-in day not to twist their apartment room key a certain way into their bathroom door otherwise they could possibly get locked in if closed. They were encouraged just to use the inner lock bolt body system. Students got charged $5, after one free pass, if a staff member got a call and had to rescue them from trapping themselves in their own bathroom. Working in that hall for two years, I rescued students 7 times and 4 of those times it was the same girl.
Cactus McCoy 4 years ago
Charging people for aclear building mistake that must be fixed? That's new...
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Ramming your key into a lock and using it in a way it's not meant to be, is not a "building mistake"
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Persephone 4 years ago
Sounds like a massive lawsuit and safety hazard in the event of a fire.
#45
In California "it is illegal to hunt deer with explosive arrowheads"
Trillian 4 years ago
Am not an expert on deer. How many of them have explosive arrowheads and how did that evolve?
Lillukka79 3 years ago
That's what I was thinking. We just have the normal kind, not explosive arrowheaded ones.
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Jihana 4 years ago
Don't you normally hunt deer for the meat? If you blow up the poor animal there won't be any meat left.
F. H. 4 years ago
Yes, but you also want a quick kill, so that the animal doesn't suffer and you don't have to search for it for hours. So I get the idea behind it, but of course the best solution is just not to use arrows for hunting at all.
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#46
Caution: Do Not Hold Wrong End of Chainsaw
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
And this is what happens when you let untrained idiots buy specialist power tools...
#47
I worked for a company that would send us out of town and put us up in hotels for weeks. We had per diem for food but they told us we could absolutely not use it on alcohol. Found out the company use to have an open bar at the hotel for employees until some former employees got so drunk they hired prostitutes and ended up doing cocaine and were killed out of the hotel and arrested.
Skara Brae 4 years ago
Ohh. It took me a minute to realize it should say 'kicked out'. Too bad, I was wondering what the police would charge dead people with after arresting them.
#48
Worked as a substitute teacher. During training there was a good 30 minutes reviewing strange rules. One he heavily specified was how we are not allowed to take home class pets. Turns out a sub the year before had taken home a class gold fish because the tank was too small and then ransomed the gold fish to the class until proof of a larger tank.
Hotdogking 4 years ago
That last sentence doesn’t make sense to me no matter how many times I read it. Can someone please explain?
Vexorg2 4 years ago
The sub refused to return the goldfish until the class got a larger tank for it. Ransom may have been the wrong word to use in this situation.
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It's a time-lord hamster. That's why it regenerates over the holidays and comes back looking different
#49
At a 7-11, I saw a sign on the chili dispenser for hot dogs that read, “Do not fill Big Gulp cups with chili.”
#50
In a supermarket, by the cherry display: "For the safety of employees and customers, please do not discard cherry pits on the floor." Couldn't figure out why it didn't just say "please don't eat the cherries" but I'm sure there's an injury lawsuit involved!
Vivian Orr 4 years ago
Or I know…… Don’t eat the cherries u haven’t paid for
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A fairly small apartment complex pool (indoors) that had a sign reading: No Running No Diving No Smoking No Kayaks
#52
I've been trying to buy a house and at several open house inspections, there have been signs asking people not to use the seller's toilet.
#53
I went to work in a remote part of Alaska as a line cook. They had a mandatory drug test and very extensive background check with several interviews held by various admins in the company. This doesn't seem weird until you consider the type of people who work seasonal jobs. Especially remote seasonal jobs several hours from the closest 'town'. It takes a special kind of weird to even be interested in spending 6 months there. When I finally arrived in camp and asked around, I found out the previous summer they had some issues with one specific employee. Before that summer, employment with the company was very liberating. You show up for your shift, you're good. Not much else to it. You're also surrounded by wilderness for 100s of miles and purposefully scheduled 3 day weekends so you can enjoy it. Well one guy brings his son with him. Apparently that's not too weird at the time. The son starts stealing personal items of female employees and stashing them under his mattress. The dad is also getting coke smuggled in by either a trucker or the mail. It all culminates with one big episode that no one really wanted to discuss. After that... mandatory drug tests and very detailed interview process with background checks.
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
Cooks have had that reputation for a lot longer than that!
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"Don't throw pickles on the* glass!" Burger King
Mark LaHoud 4 years ago
Actually, it was you and they know where you live.
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To me, employees must wash hands before returning to work..... Who the hell doesn't wash their hands after using the bathroom, especially working in food service.
I I 4 years ago
I KNOW RIGHT i stood and waited over an hour for an employee to come wash my hands before i gave up and did them myself................
Lee 4 years ago
I work in food service. The lack of hand hygiene by some coworkers, cooks even, not servers, would make you never want to eat out again. One cook gave the plague (pre COVID) to everyone in the kitchen and beyond because she refused to call out when she had the flu and open mouth coughed on the food. It took them years and a new manager to finally say "you're disgusting and also fired". I'm not a manager, but if I was I would have given her walking papers the second I got complaints about it. To this day I think that woman had dirt on the manager who refused to get rid of her gross self.
Allen Lavine 4 years ago
What's crazy a lot of men don't wash there hands BEFORE using the restroom (number 1) think about how many things you touch then go and put your hands on your private
Full Name 4 years ago
I really don't think a lot of women do either, Allen.
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When I worked at a warehouse, I was told that we can't ride pallet jacks like scooters.
A B C 4 years ago
Yet it is still being done in every warehouse, like, ever. :D
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DC 4 years ago (edited)
I once was an intern where they had not only these, but also some electrically driven ones ... when hitting something with these while riding on them, you'd get a vertical bruise right at the center of your ribcage - whoever came to the company's doctor with that, wasn't allowed sick leave.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
The warehouse I worked in they were used to lift the workers to where they were needed!
#57
I live in student accommodation, on the back of the bathroom door there are diagrams of the right and wrong ways to sit on the toilet.
Aisling Allan 4 years ago
Seen a lot of these signs in India where squat toilets are also a thing.
I I 4 years ago
thats why we have them , people try to use normal toilets as squat toilets
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 4 years ago
In many areas of the world, there are only squat toilets, If someone has only seen or used squat toilets, they would not know how to use the other style of toilet. I had to have instruction on how to use the first squat toilet I encountered.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Yeah, in my city, they have the instructions on the toilet doors, in areas where there is a high level of migrants.
Load More Replies... AnnaBanana 4 years ago
And they ignore the damned signs anyway. Can't tell you how many times I've seen footprints on a public toilet seat.
Lyone Fein 4 years ago
Not sure why you'd say this. They are actually more hygienic than sit toilets, and they are easier on the body as well.
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"If you've had diarrhea in the last 48 hours, please do not enter the pool water."
Otter 4 years ago
That's because of norovirus, a contagious virus that can spread in pool water and cause mass diarrhea and illness. This isn't a silly rule, it's a life-saver.
Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
No, but like many others it's silly that it's required
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Chrissa Gordon 4 years ago
In Atlanta, a little girl died or nearly died bc of e coli contracted at White Water. Source was a sick child not wearing a proper swim diaper.
#59
In Little Rock, Arkansas, I believe it's illegal to walk cattle down Main Street on Sundays.
Seabeast 4 years ago
Only if you take a poop scoop and large bag with you.
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Does that mean there are no religious cows in Little Rock Arkansas? Well bless my cow!
#60
There was a sign in one of the bathrooms at my college "Please do not dump coffee grounds in the toilets." It was only in one wing of one building, so I'm sure something happened.
Lee 4 years ago
No one told me this before. Thank you! I didn't know you weren't supposed to put eggshells in a disposal until a roommate did it and our other roommate's mother got upset about it.
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I had an English teacher that had an ironclad rule about no one touching her classroom door except for her. Rumor is that some kids super glued her classroom door shut a few years ago. This led to some of my classmates rubbing themselves all over the door when she was absent for a day and when she went on maternity leave.
#62
Bathing a donkey this is a law because in a hurricane as a donkey was taking a bath it went missing and people had to look for him
Marco Hub-Dub 4 years ago
I think it’s specifically in a bathtub and it’s a New Mexico law. A donkey was being bathed in a bath tub when a flash flood of a hurricane swept it away. The people who went searching drowned.
Marco Hub-Dub 4 years ago
Backing up the Arizona version: 1. No donkeys in bathtubs in the State of Arizona In 1924 the legislature in Arizona enacted a law which remains in effect prohibiting people from allowing donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. At first glance the law seems ridiculous, since a donkey sleeping in a bathtub seems to harm no one, including the donkey. But that year a donkey was discovered drifting in floodwaters. After querying the owner of donkey and tub, it was determined that the tub had been abandoned outside on the owner’s property and the donkey had decided on its own to use it as its customary place of repose. When a dam near Kingman collapsed causing a flash flood the napping donkey was floated downstream. The town went to considerable expense to rescue the donkey from the tub, including men securing the vessel and removing the animal to safe ground. After the experience, considering the expense and the risks encountered by the rescuers, the wise people of Kingman lobbied for and won
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I flipped a car over an embankment once and they put up a yield sign
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That makes sense and is surely common place? Similar to when they put signs up to watch out for animals crossing etc.
#64
My father's hometown, Marion, Ohio, had a rule that you couldn't eat a donut while walking backwards. If I remember correctly, it had something to do with attracting police horses to lure them away from the police.
What do you think ?
Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
Anyone else notice the number 1 after every reply??? Is this a new BP Thing?1
Random person 4 years ago
Same, at first I thought those were parts of the posts!
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Lawless 4 years ago (edited)
Every comment ends in a 1. Why? Why does it end like that? The end of a comment has a 1. Am I going crazy? Help.
bonnyatlast 4 years ago
When I was dating my now husband he was a choir director at a state MENSA convention. On the brochures it very plainly stated a rule. "Clothing is not an option." Apparently that was needed in print. Must have a great backstory.
Tina Hugh 4 years ago
Clothing is "not an option" or clothing is "not optional"? Big diff
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
Where is the perennial classic from Toyota owners manuals "Do not drink contents of battery."
not your average weirdo 4 years ago
Here’s one: in Arizona animals have vehicle rights. If you ride a horse, you still have to follow all traffic laws!
memyselfandI 4 years ago
Or there’s always the obligatory “don’t use a hairdryer in the bathtub”, “don’t eat dessicant packs”, “don’t eat tide pods”, “don’t eat” most anything other than food, and “this bag of nuts contains nuts”.
Dr. Carlos Dangercat 4 years ago
My lease specified that I'm not allowed to hire anyone to clean the exterior windows and I'm still not sure why....
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
That is incredibly specific and odd. I wonder what has happened to your landlord to make them feel the need to say that? The mind boggles 🤔
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Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
Anyone else notice the number 1 after every reply??? Is this a new BP Thing?1
Random person 4 years ago
Same, at first I thought those were parts of the posts!
Load More Replies... Lawless 4 years ago (edited)
Every comment ends in a 1. Why? Why does it end like that? The end of a comment has a 1. Am I going crazy? Help.
bonnyatlast 4 years ago
When I was dating my now husband he was a choir director at a state MENSA convention. On the brochures it very plainly stated a rule. "Clothing is not an option." Apparently that was needed in print. Must have a great backstory.
Tina Hugh 4 years ago
Clothing is "not an option" or clothing is "not optional"? Big diff
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
Where is the perennial classic from Toyota owners manuals "Do not drink contents of battery."
not your average weirdo 4 years ago
Here’s one: in Arizona animals have vehicle rights. If you ride a horse, you still have to follow all traffic laws!
memyselfandI 4 years ago
Or there’s always the obligatory “don’t use a hairdryer in the bathtub”, “don’t eat dessicant packs”, “don’t eat tide pods”, “don’t eat” most anything other than food, and “this bag of nuts contains nuts”.
Dr. Carlos Dangercat 4 years ago
My lease specified that I'm not allowed to hire anyone to clean the exterior windows and I'm still not sure why....
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
That is incredibly specific and odd. I wonder what has happened to your landlord to make them feel the need to say that? The mind boggles 🤔
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